Psalm 50-51

Psalm 50-51English Standard Version (ESV)

God Himself Is Judge

A Psalm of Asaph.

50 The Mighty One, God the Lord,speaks and summons the earthfrom the rising of the sun to its setting.2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,God shines forth.

3 Our God comes; he does not keep silence;[a]before him is a devouring fire,around him a mighty tempest.4 He calls to the heavens aboveand to the earth, that he may judge his people:5 “Gather to me my faithful ones,who made a covenant with me by sacrifice!”6 The heavens declare his righteousness,for God himself is judge! Selah

7 “Hear, O my people, and I will speak;O Israel, I will testify against you.I am God, your God.8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you;your burnt offerings are continually before me.9 I will not accept a bull from your houseor goats from your folds.10 For every beast of the forest is mine,the cattle on a thousand hills.11 I know all the birds of the hills,and all that moves in the field is mine.

12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you,for the world and its fullness are mine.13 Do I eat the flesh of bullsor drink the blood of goats?14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,[b]and perform your vows to the Most High,15 and call upon me in the day of trouble;I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

16 But to the wicked God says:“What right have you to recite my statutesor take my covenant on your lips?17 For you hate discipline,and you cast my words behind you.18 If you see a thief, you are pleased with him,and you keep company with adulterers.

19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil,and your tongue frames deceit.20 You sit and speak against your brother;you slander your own mother's son.21 These things you have done, and I have been silent;you thought that I[c] was one like yourself.But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.

22 “Mark this, then, you who forget God,lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!23 The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;to one who orders his way rightlyI will show the salvation of God!”

Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

3 For I know my transgressions,and my sin is ever before me.4 Against you, you only, have I sinnedand done what is evil in your sight,so that you may be justified in your wordsand blameless in your judgment.5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,and in sin did my mother conceive me.6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.8 Let me hear joy and gladness;let the bones that you have broken rejoice.9 Hide your face from my sins,and blot out all my iniquities.10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,and renew a right[e] spirit within me.11 Cast me not away from your presence,and take not your Holy Spirit from me.12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,and uphold me with a willing spirit.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,and sinners will return to you.14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,O God of my salvation,and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.15 O Lord, open my lips,and my mouth will declare your praise.16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;build up the walls of Jerusalem;19 then will you delight in right sacrifices,in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;then bulls will be offered on your altar.

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